About Us
Praxis is an award-winning human rights charity fighting for migrant rights since 1983. We give advice, provide support, and campaign so that migrants and refugees in the UK can live with safety, dignity and respect.
Our vision:
People who have migrated to the UK will not be marginalised or mistreated because of their immigration status. They will live safely, free from poverty, discrimination, and exclusion, and be treated with compassion and respect.
Our mission:
Our mission is to create positive change for and with individuals and communities who are marginalised because of their immigration status. We deliver this by working on three levels:
1. Delivering direct services: providing specialist legal advice and holistic welfare support to help people live securely and safely.
2. Building the capacity of other services in the UK: using our expertise to provide innovative solutions and sharing our knowledge through training and partnership working.
3. Campaigning for systemic change: building alliances and working in partnership with experts by experience to create positive, long-term changes to the policies and practices that cause exclusion and destitution.
Our history:
Forty years ago, a group of people were fed up of the way migrants and refugees were being treated. They created a home where everyone belongs. They supported people to build their lives here.
Diaspora groups formed to support human rights movements in their countries of origin. They saw apartheid in South Africa and refused to stay silent. They saw violent dictators in Chile and refused to keep quiet. They demanded justice.
That’s how the powerful Praxis community began. Today, people who’ve migrated lead our campaigns and community groups remain the heart of Praxis.
The word Praxis means practising your values. We believe our everyday actions can improve our world and ourselves. So we never stop resisting. Join us.
Learn about our values:
“At Praxis there are so many transformations that sometimes you blink and there is something new, because it is responding to the needs of the people, that’s why they were one of the first organisation responding to the need of the Windrush generation, because they saw a need and offered a solution.”
